Exactly one week on - happy 'leavers' how are we all feeling?

[Surferjet]

Wow what a week
I'm still walking on air & soooooo happy we're leaving, just want A50 triggered ASAP!

[Theimpossiblegirl]

It's like being in the Twilight Zone around here.

Happy, can't wait for Gove to take over, excited for the future...

Do people not watch the news or engage in current affairs at all?

[twofingerstoGideon]

I'm happy too. I know lots of happy Leavers.
What has delighted them most?

• Farage's charming speech to the very people the UK must negotiate with?
  
• The increase in racially motivated attacks?
  
• The Tories running around like headless chickens because they have no plan?
  
• The fact that some companies/institutions have put recruitment on hold (my own employer has done this)?
  
• The fact that this has caused family rifts that may take a long time to heal?

[Destinysdaughter]

Leavers are fucking deluded if they're 'happy' after everything that has happened this week!

[twofingerstoGideon]

Fran: Also, we don't have anywhere near the number of expert trade negotiators we need.

Purits: Because the EU has de-skilled us. Yay for the EU.

The EU de-skilled us? WTAF? Did they suck out our brains while we were sleeping?

[Joysmum]

I'm pleased with the vote but feel uneasy as hell.

I'm desperate for the debate on what comes next to properly get underway.

There were as many motivations for people to vote to leave as those who voted to stay. We need to find the majority view as to what comes next to replace full EU membership.

For some (including me) it'll be wanting a Norway style free trade agreement, for others there are no compromises they'll wish to make and so we'd have no special arrangements with the EU at all without compromises.

Of course those that voted remain have a vital role to play in finding the majority view on what comes next and until we have that, we can't have a plan, and until we have a plan it'd be folly to the IK, EU and the world economies to invoke article 50. We only have 2 years post article 50 to nogetioate literally 1000's of points so it's vital we have a majority stance on how to proceed before with set the clock running and to limit uncertainty that'll ripple across the world.

[originalmavis]

Why vote for something if you don't actually know what it is beyond 'we fought 2 world wars...' and £350m a week for the nhs (oops, we lied).

It's a right pig in a poke.

[TheElementsSong]

Any Happy Leavers care to comment on the Telegraph link I posted? So far, this seems like just about the only thing amounting to a Plan to Leave. Are you happy with what is proposed in it?

It's been a week - the time for Abstract Nouns is surely fading away

[TheElementsSong]

Fran Mumsnet really needs a sarcasm font.

[OohMavis]

Most people who voted Leave are back to talking about Game of Thrones or the Kardashians after weeks and weeks of tireless facebook campaigning.

That's when they're not telling anyone off who has the temerity to keep talking about it, as it's 'over and done with now and we all just need to move on' as though the whole thing was a game of scrabble or something.

[originalmavis]

Oooh Mavis - funny but sadly true. 'Someone' will fix the mess. Santa Claus? No no King Arthur - isn't there a magic bugle that we can blow and he and his knights of the round table will arise from the grave and defend us? I saw it in a museum and I totally believe it.

[sorenofthejnaii]

I'm still walking on air & soooooo happy we're leaving

I'm not entirely sure what's happening at the moment.

[originalmavis]

Floating on air? Delirium? Delusions?... I repeat my crack statement.

[winkywinkola]

There is no crack team to deal with this.

There will be no Norway-style agreement.

Are happy leavers living in some non-news bubble filled with rainbows?

Wow. It's turmoil. Nobody has a clue how to approach this with the EU. We are out in the cold. I really really hope things get better soon.

Farridge is blundering about insulting MEPs and damaging diplomacy.

Gove is a nightmare waiting to happen and Teresa May would happily dismiss the Human Rights Act in a heartbeat.

What exactly is there to be cheery about? Some vague notion of sovereignty? Whatever that is.

So bored of the bullshit.

[ommmward]

elements
Number 1, 2 and 5, yes please, with knobs on . A big part of my leave vote is because I think it's utterly immoral to be part of a rich, northern, largely white cartel. My hope is that us leaving the EU will lead to trade agreements that are better for the global south and with luck do a modest bit of global financial redistribution (and yes, that means I think we should be relatively poorer).

3 I'm really not sure. I would want to cherry pick my own bits of deregulation 😎 I'd be totally up for having different kinds of regulation for different kinds and sizes of business. Oops children... Will return for 4 and 6 😎

[Zucker]

Interested in this from purists Nice to know we have some friends, as opposed to that lot over in EU-land who can't wait to shaft us.

Disclaimer I'm not in the UK. The result of the vote for leave has basically told the EU to fuck off with their rules and regulations, so interesting you see it as the EU trying to shaft you.

[originalmavis]

It reminds me of many moons go when I was at a school trip to France and the news came through that we had won the five nations.

Much excited running around the hotel cafe by a bunch of loud and obnoxious teens.

'We won, we woooooon! Woohoo woohoo! In your face, frenchies!'.

I rember asking one of the boys what happened. 'dunno, we won something'.

[FranHastings]

Sorry I missed the sarcasm, Elements. It just sounded all too believable.

[BlunderWomansCat]

We are now the proud citizens of the worlds leading cautionary tale, as Charlie Brooker put it.

[TheElementsSong]

originalmavis Crack team? Like the ATeam or actually on crack (which is what I suspect the rest of the world this is we are smoking)?

Love this!

And presumably Leavers must mean the latter, because we can't have any experts involved with their inconvenient expert opinions, can we?

[Ifailed]

For some (including me) it'll be wanting a Norway style free trade agreement

I see, that's the one where you have accept all the free-movement of people and stuff, EU regulations, pay into the EU (almost certainly without the rebate), but have absolutely no say whatsoever in how the EU is run?

[originalmavis]

I was speaking to the head teacher last night.

She said that there were a few kids lined up to start next year coming from abroad or expats returning. They were beginning to pull out as comparies weren't investing here any more or were closing offices and moving to mainland Europe.

And so it starts...

[Surferjet]

The leave camp will cherry pick the bits of news that back up their frustration & disappintment - that's only natural. But for every piece of negative reporting there's a positive one.
& no, the world does not see us as idiots, many within the EU see us as brave & forward thinking. Just watch how many other countries push for a referendum!

[originalmavis]

Happy to have amused some people - sorry my fat fingers mangled it somewhat, but you get the sentiment.